On the evenings of Jan. 17 and 18, the planets will appear virtually side by side, in what's called a “planetary conjunction.

Before 2020 comes to a close, Jupiter and Saturn will be so close that they will appear to form a “double planet.” Such a spectacular great conjunction, as the planetary alignment has come to ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but it will reach its annual opposition on September 7-8, 2024.

There they were, Saturn and Jupiter ... in the pandemic year of 2020. You could go outside then and stare at the gassy planets on the empty streets at midnight, their presence suggesting, if ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: In 2017, NASA's Cassini probe sent us our closest view of Saturn as it dove into the planet's stormy atmosphere. And the results were stunning.

A Saturn V rocket launches from Pad 39A on the ... ahead of the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station in May 2020. NASA As for LC-39B, it has been outfitted for multiple vehicles ...

Though technically the December 21, 2020 Jupiter-Saturn conjunction will be the first since the year 2000, this is the first time the two planets will be as close as they were in the year 1623.